Kind of unbelievable. It’s been 18 years since they were imprisoned for brutal slayings in Arkansas, across the Mississippi River from Memphis.
The release was part of a complicated Alford plea deal in which the men, who had maintained their innocence all along, pleaded guilty, while maintaining their innocence, and were credited for time served.
Jon Huntsman’s round of statements and tweets over the last two or three days make me seriously wonder if he’s really trying to win the Republican nomination. Read the story.
Apple Corp now worth more than Euro Zone banks. All of them. Put together.
Romney launches new ad embracing ‘corporations are people’ gaffe, but with a twist.
Missouri Lt. Gov and probable gubernatorial candidate Peter Kinder (R) has been responding to allegations he frequented a strip club and stalked one of the strippers. Kinder says he did frequent the strip club but eventually realized it wasn’t consistent with his Christian lifestyle.
From our Ames Straw Poll slideshow, Ron Paul supporter supporting her “Ron Paul Is The Constitution” sign. He is. And it is deeply awesome.
Even more awesome: the girl in the picture holding the sign is holding an admission ticket for the “Ron Paul Mosh Pit”
What do you make of the new hard-hittin’, tough-tweetin’ Jon Huntsman? We ran a piece on Friday asking whether the former Utah governor and Obama-appointed ambassador to China was even trying to win the nomination any more. Since then numerous emails have come in from readers who think he’s making a long play for the nomination in 2016.
That’s certainly a reasonable view. However, it’s possible there’s something else at work here, too. Read More
Events are unfolding rapidly in Libya, where rebel forces have advanced into Tripoli. Muammar Qaddafi is promising to fight to the last ‘drop of blood’, but it now seems clear that the end of his rule, in whatever form it comes, could be little more than hours away.
For up to the minute breaking developments out of Libya check our auto-updating TPMLivewire.
Benjy Sarlin on how Public Policy Polling used an impressive track record and whacky poll questions to become the “it” Democratic polling outfit.